Billy Eugene Self Jr. is an American basketball coach. He is the head men’s basketball coach at the University of Kansas, a position he has held since 2003.

During his 19 seasons as head coach at Kansas, he has led the Jayhawks to 16 Big 12 regular season championships, including an NCAA record 14 consecutive Big 12 regular season championships, some of which were shared (2005–2018).

At the end of the 2021–22 season, Self had the 18th most wins among Division I coaches in NCAA history and 4th among active head coaches.

He is the second-winningest coach in Kansas history, behind only Hall of Famer Phog Allen and is the only coach in Kansas history to lead Kansas to multiple NCAA Tournament National Championships.

Self was the highest-paid NCAA basketball coach for the 2021–22 season. He made $10,184,282 that season. He signed a lifetime contract extension with the Jayhawks in 2021.

In 2022, Self became the seventh coach to win multiple NCAA tournament championships since the tournament field expanded to 64 teams in 1985.

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Here’s Bill Self, once more on top of the sport. Put everything that goes into coaching college basketball into consideration, and it’s plain to see that Self is arguably the best out there. Monday proved it.

You could also ask just about anyone in the college coaching profession; Self’s name is always included when listing those at the top of a best-coaches list. He often occupies slot No. 1.

His No. 1-seeded Jayhawks made history on Monday night, holding on vs. North Carolina, their 72-69 win giving the program its fourth national championship: 1952, 1988, 2008 and now.

Self just became the first Kansas coach to win multiple NCAA Tournament titles.